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The National tribune., 1887-01-27

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: ] notice that
"a. kurtz, Sergeant, Co. X, 18th Mo-, wishes
some correspondent would give an account Of
the signals that were waved across the Tennes.
see River By the advance force Of Gen. Buell.
from the signal station at Pittsburg Landing
on the evening Of the first days fight al Shiloh.
j can give him something of an idea of the
affair, as ] was at that time Acting Assistant
Signal Officer on Gen. Nelson's staff, was the
FIRST Of Buoll's army 10 cross, and the bearer of
a message from Gen. Nelson 10 Gen. Buell., who
had gone up on a boat earlier in the day, but
had none Of his army with him. The message
was Ia these words:
Tel Gen. Buell. that have 10000 better men than
those under the bank, that mean 70 have hand
IA this, aud want transportation.
crossed with another officer aud four Gag
men al about 4.3O p. m, left then 60 open the
station, aud hunted for Gen. Buell., whom /
found on the field at the front delivered The
message and told him that the old Fourth Di-
vision was close Al hand, that we had our signal
station at work, aud would Gag any orders that
he wished 10 send.
lie rode down 10 the Landing by my side
and gave his orders for the disposition of the
troops as they crossed 30 that no time was lost
In getting them into position where they would
ado The most good, which every one who wa.
there knows was on our left Buells troop.
checked the advance Of the rebel right and
closed the frst days fight
We worked with flags by daylight aud torches
after dark. This, think, Will satisfy the Ser
geant always supposed, until long after tho
wal, that report Of tue services of the sigma
Corps at that time had been made bat tht
ranking officer failed TO do it, and none hai
ever been made In few days shall, at la,
request Of the Veteran Signal Corps Association
write out an account in full, as ! am perhaps
the only person living who can do sos. l.
10th Wis. and Captain, 4lst Wis, Tombstone
Ariz.
The National tribune., 1887-01-27
THE GUNTOWN TRIP.
How 1t Appeared to lieutenant of the aad /

How NJ Appeared 10 a LieHienant or the a3d Ind.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: The Guntown
expedition started from Memphis Tenn. about
the LIST of June 1864 under command of "Old
Sam" Sturgis. We marched la a southeasterly
direction through Lafayette, Collierville. and
La Grange, Tenn, Lamar aud Riply, Miss, with
out encountering any enemy except Sturgis's
suffer, who was well supplied with peaches
swimming in brandy, put up in glass jars in
tempting style. In the afternoon Of June 10
we reached place called Brices Cross Roads,
Miss. Gen. Grierson was already there with
his cavalry, and we could hear their racket
long before we reached the field, though we
double-quieked a good deal Of the time under
a burning sum- reaching the field in an ex-
hausted condition. On nearing the spot our
train, consisting Of about lbs wagons, was
crowded across a narrow bridge over a small
stream with miry bed and steep banks, and
there cOrralied.
The 72d Ohio was ordered forward, while the
three other regiments Of the First Brigade
First Division, Sixteenth Corps were retained
near the wagons. After the I'D was whipped
the Hath ia. was ordered forward, and SO all
the other regiments in turn-the 95th Ohio
10th Mimi, and 93d Ind, until the whole bril-
Rade was beaten in detail. The whole force
fed IN confusion, many Of the men aud officers
/ being left dead and wounded on the field. The
writer was one OF the last 10 get away, aud only
succeeded by taking a mule from a deserted
wagon. Riding all night came up with Col
| Thomas, Of the $50 Ind, who was wounded
through the thigh. lie ordered me forward Il
Ripley, telling me that Capt Swift was ahead
and he wished me TO assist him TO organize The
regiment the best We could at that place.
Reaching the suburbs Of the town found
] Capt Swift with several Of the men about him
We set TO work 10 organize, got the boys int
line, and found an average Of six guns 10 a com
pany, with only four rounds Of ammunition 3,
the gun. At this time the rebels were upon us
and we started off again without firing gun
The Sd Iowa Cav. covered our Fight will no
call il a retreat. by the help Of the brave Iowi
boys we maintained our imperfectly organized
regiment until about ] o'clock in the afternoon
when the rebels madea dash, drove the cavalry
and captured and scattered every man that diS
not have a mule or horse 10 ride. Some es
capped by hiding in the woods, and finally
reached camp, several days after we had 90
back TO Memphis where we arrived on the l2tl
Of June.
The writer, who was a member Of the SO
Ind, thinks that the whole expedition, iron
first TO last, could have been managed better b.
any Corporal in either Of the regiments Of Ia
brigade. The same little army had met ia
same Napoleon Bonaparte Forest, in sewers
battles, and always put him 10 flight If tina
expedition had been properly conducted
would have been a success ia place of failure
ELI STRISGER, Second Lieutenant, Co. A, SO
Ind, Edgerton, Kansas.
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A Brave DASH.
An Incident of Campaigning on Cheat
Mountain.
By CAPT. J. NJ. RIFE 9TH W. VA. CAV, WEST
JEFFERSON, o.

The war through which our Nation passed
in 1876 was accompanied by so many per-
sonal incidents, daring adventures and hair
breadth escapes that they cannot all be recount
ed. The modesty of many veteran and his
inability TO set down in writing his experiences
deprive us of many things worth knowing and
that are equal in soldierly proves 10 the most
daring deeds Of the knights of old.
This leads me to write of an adventure con-
nected with the cavalry command of Gen. w.
w. Averell, which lay at Beverly, in Randolph
Co., w. Va, in October, 1863 One morning
Capt. L. B. Powell, of the 9TH w. Va. Cav, was
ordered on picket duty with 100 men II miles
10 the front, near the base of Cheat Mountain.
His advance post was Mt the base Of the mount
ain, where the road passed by the battlefield
aud works of Gen. Reynolds. Picket duty in
the mountains of West Virginia was by no
means pleasant. The country was full of rebel
spies and bushwhackers, who watched for every
opportunity TO steal upon and shoot down the
unhappy man whose duty it was TO
STAND GUARD FAR TO THE FRONT.
During the second night OF outpost duty a
detail was made from this company for escort
duty. Saylor, from Gen. Averells headquar-
tiers, came to the front with an order for an
escort 10 accompany him over the mountain,
where they were TO leave him and a COM
rade and he was 10 go on in the performance OF
his mission. The man chosen TO lead this
The National tribune., 1887-01-27

put flag on everything, especially if it was
empty and there was no danger. But fooled
my time away by planting my flags on we'll
filed chicken-roosts, smokehouses and bee
hives, and often got wOrsted, too. During the
war thought there was more glory in capturing
a fat hog, or a nice sugar-cured ham, or few
turkeys, or a well-flled beehive than in plant
ing flags on empty court-houses; but can see
now how badly got left. was in the siege OF
Knoxville, the campaign from Buzzards' ROost
to Atlanta. saw the first of Hoods army at
Columbia, franklin and Nashville, and helped
to take Wilmington, n. C.-J. G. JEFFERs, Co
A, Tooth Ohio, Phillips Station, Neb.
The National tribune., 1887-01-27

Over 500 new agents located In almost every
State and Territory, have been made for Tan
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months. Live dealers are making their rent
IN this wonderful cigar Apply at once 10 K.
w. Tansill a. Co., Chicago, and secure the agency
Tor your town before IL ID too late.
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HOW HE GOT LEFT.
His Mistake In Planting HIS Flags In the Wrong
Places.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Nearly all
soldiers had their failings. If we had been far
seeing we all could have done something to put
in history. When / see how many have made
themselves historical by planting flags on
empty forts, court-houses and churches, wish
l had only known the glory there would
be 20 years after the war, and / would have put
a flag on every courthouse, every church and
every fort l came across. In fact would have
The National tribune., 1887-01-27

Mr.. Jacob Froehlich, a well known tailor Of
Cincinnati, o., after suffering for years with
rheumatism, was cured in short time by the
use Of st. Jacobs Oil
The National tribune., 1887-01-27
A Handsome Calendar.

The hand5omest calendar that has reached
the editors desk comes with the compliments
of our genial comrade, Col. J. q. Everest, Gem
eral Southern Passenger Agent Of the Chicago,
Milwaukee * st. Paul Railroad Every page
is a handsome chrome, equal in design and ar
tistic execution to the best pictures that one
sees anywhere, and it is something that any
one might be glad TO hang up in bis parlor.
The National tribune., 1887-01-27
LETS GO THOUGH THEM

Come along all that will go with me!' We
drew reyolvers and dashed among them. We
fired and they fired and dubbed their guns
some took hold OF our horses aud ordered us To
surrender, but the boys drew sabers and let
them have it right and left until we were
nearly past, when another trouble met us.
They had felled a large tree across the road
from the upper side. i saw we might pass by
cutting out few branches from the top.
dismounted and began TO tear away, while the
boys were holding the rebs at bay / soon
forced my horse by, and some Of the others had
got through by this time, and we were in the
road again, with a clear track aud the rebels
all behind. Only one of our party showed the
white feather. lie dismounted and took TO the
woods.
There were but six of us. We captured
some Of the same rebel party few months
aftcrward, and they said there were So Of them
The National tribune., 1887-01-27

party was Corpl A. J. Spradling, of Co. A. one
of the bravest and truest men and soldiers /
ever knew. j allow him from this point to tell
the story of his adventures in his own words !:
I'VE made ready to go as soon as we got
proper orders from the Captain Of the Guard.
Saylor said we would start in time to reach the
top Of Cheat Mountain by daylight But we
started little too soon. however, and il was
not light when we arrived at the summit. We
dismounted and lay down, shivering with the
cold. Those Cheat Mountains are awfully cold
at that time Of year. / shivered so l thought
i would crack my teeth.
ave waited for day because We had reason
TO suppose the Johnnies might be on the
mountain and i'm the works, aud our scout was
not willing 10 pass until we knew no rebels
were there. When we found they were not
there we moved forward down the mountain,
crossing the wonderful Cheat River on the
bridge and passing on toward the valley and
across it, until We could see the rebel fortifica-
tions beyond Jackson River.
Before we bad gone thus far saw signs on
the road that the rebels had been that way
quite recently. We had now gone about 10
miles from the top Of the mountain. We were
far in the enemy's country, and only six of us.
The road looked as though a regiment had been
passing. i said to my brother that we would
Ia
The National tribune., 1887-01-27
CATARRH CURED.

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disease CatarTh and yainly trying every known
remedy, at last found prescription which completely
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ope Dr. Lawrence 10 East 9ih ST., New York. Will re-
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SURE TO GET pusHwuAcKEp

before we got back. We turned 10 go back,
leaving Mr.. Saylor TO 20 on. We could not 20
farther toward the enemy without fight and
possible capture. As we turned TO go the rebels
could see US as plainly as we saw them, aud
expected TO be followed. j sent the two lead
horses in advance 1.-THE scouts had dismounted
here) and remained in the rear. But we were
not followed. for the rebels supposed they had
the sure thing on us anyhow and were noways
anxious or in a hurry, but waited for us 10 ride
into the trap they had set for us.
when our advance got back to where we
had seen the signs on the way out. the rebels
were found across the road fronting us. They
fired a yolley at Seth Spurlock, who was lead.
ing the horses. They were so sure Of us that
they did not fire TO hit, but to compel US TO sur
render, because they needed horses so badly
One Of them aimed too low and killed the hOrsC
Spurlock was riding. He Immediately mount.
ed one Of the Others.
"Ihe rest Of US were coming up rapidly.
saw something had TO be done mighty quick OF
they would get us; so | ordered a charge right
on TO them. i said Boys,
The National tribune., 1887-01-27

Mrs. c. Kellogg, Edgwood, Cal, says: Red
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ever used for colds for the children.
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Taken after dinner Ayers Pills promote cas-.
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